A few take-home points on this big study on Twitter and fake news 1. It doesn't mean the majority, or even a sizable portion of the content you read on Twitter is fakehttps://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/3/8/17085928/fake-news-study-mit-science …
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Because there's so much true news. It's very very hard to perfectly conclude that fake news is going to spread faster and farther than true. Cause it's just hard to compare to all the type of true news out there.
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5. Another interesting tidbit: Bots don't favor true news or false news. In sum, they promote both at equal rates.
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And finally, 6) I'm left wondering if Twitter can really solve this problem. Fake news is so pernicious because it so perfectly hits our biases. And if twitter wants users to engage and share information ... people are going to end up sharing this stuff, regardless of intent
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